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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Later Annals set the stage for?
(a) Love.
(b) Quenta.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Fear.

2. What did the greatest of the Ainur take on as they taught the Elves and Men?
(a) Lessons.
(b) Time.
(c) Change.
(d) Poetry.

3. Which tongues were different from the Lembi?
(a) Noldor.
(b) Terendi.
(c) Ingwe.
(d) Ilkorian.

4. In Q, the Valar are explained in what tense?
(a) Future conditional.
(b) Present.
(c) Future.
(d) Past.

5. What were the five types of speech developed by the Noldor?
(a) Mithrim, Gondolin, Nargothrond, Himring, and the thrall-Gnomes.
(b) Mithrim, Gondolin, Nargothrond, Himring, and Ilkorian.
(c) Mithrim, Gondolin, Terendi, Himring, and the thrall-Gnomes
(d) Mithrim, Terendi, Nargothrond, Himring, and the thrall-Gnomes.

6. Who were the greatest powers among the Ainur?
(a) Tolkien, Christopher, Lewis, and Mark.
(b) Valar, Valinor, Varma, and Vallya.
(c) Melko, Manwe, Ulmo, and Aule.
(d) Jason, James, Eric, and Jan.

7. What was a source for the Creation passages in the Quenta Silmarillion?
(a) Tolkien.
(b) Ainulindale.
(c) Listwind.
(d) Ainur.

8. Iluvatar announced that the music of the Ainur would be made into _____.
(a) Whispers.
(b) Percussion.
(c) Form.
(d) Flute sounds.

9. Who decided to weave his own thoughts into the music?
(a) Iluvatar.
(b) Ainur.
(c) Ulme.
(d) Melko.

10. What did Iluvatar give the Ainur from which they made a harmony?
(a) A mighty theme.
(b) A flute.
(c) A piano.
(d) A backpacker guitar.

11. In the late 200s, who came to power and attempted to stop Morgoth?
(a) Tolkien.
(b) Huor.
(c) Turin.
(d) Hurin.

12. What siege lasted for more than two hundred years?
(a) Elfland.
(b) Orcville.
(c) Humanoid.
(d) Angband.

13. What were the Elves called that were led by Orome?
(a) Light.
(b) Quendi.
(c) Dark.
(d) Orcs.

14. What did Morgoth forge during the siege of two hundred years?
(a) Ship handles.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Relationships.
(d) Alliances.

15. What did Iluvatar teach the Ainur?
(a) Writing.
(b) Art.
(c) Musical themes.
(d) Reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the three groups of the Quendi called?

2. Who took a third of Fingolfin's Gnomes and disappeared to Gondolin?

3. Who were the Younger Children of Illuvatar?

4. In Q, what are called Ranan and Ur?

5. What fortress did Morgoth rebuild?

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